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Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall.

The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. [R.] Wood.

In a penitent manner.

A minnow. See Pink, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] Walton.

A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.

A perfect, or normal, feather.

Like or pertaining to a normal feather.

A bunch of feathers; a plume. [Obs.] Holland.

Variegated; striped. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Feathery covering; plumage. [Obs.] Holland.

A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, or long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed."…

Winged; plume-shaped.

Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

Written with a pen; composed. "Their penned speech." Shak.

One who pens; a writer. Sir T. North.

Having the form of a feather or plume.

Bearing feathers or quills.